Some Recent Additions to The Spill Library In the past few weeks, a small crop of books came this way, a few of them are shown above. All have The New Yorker in common. Many were gifted to the Spill library, some were
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Tag: Frank Sullivan
Friday Spill: Chris Weyant On The Caption Contest Podcast; A Mick Stevens Original Auctioned For A Song; Author Talk Of Interest: Liza Donnelly; Paul Karasik On Philip K. Dick; A New Yorker State Of Mind On The New Yorker’s 8th Anniversary Issue; More “Maus”
Chris Weyant On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The 50th New Yorker Caption Contest Podcast has been posted with Chris Weyant as the guest. Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, and Vin Coca are the hosts. Hear it here. Chris Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. –Clockwise from top left: Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, Chris
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Thurber Thursday: The World Of James Thurber
Here’s something fun just added to the Spill‘s archive: a two record set, released in 1967 by The Listening Library, The World Of James Thurber. I’d never heard of this until last week; I was lucky enough to find a copy online (the album cost about the same as a pound of Maxwell House). As you can see by the
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Thurber Thursday: Village Nut Club; Daily Cartoonists & Their Cartoons; New Book On The Horizon: A Peter Steiner Thriller
A friend of the Spill who specializes in sending me (scans of) eye-popping books off his shelves, recently sent this in. It’s not the Dr. Seuss illustrated cover that stirred things up around here, or that the book, published in 1933, is by Frank Sullivan (sorry, Seuss, and sorry, Sullivan): No, the exciting thing about this particular copy is what
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